These institutes are being set up under the Prime Minister’s special fund to provide three months free IT education to local youth in the region. The Bhavan has already set up 30 GIITs in various parts of the country.

The 70-year-old Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has 112 institutes in India, eight overseas centres in the UK, US, Canada, Portugal, South Africa, Kuwait, Mexico and Australia and 280 constituent institutions, besides a number of affiliated colleges.